sdec 2014 - evolving to agile

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Transforming a Public Sector Organization Jason Little, Ardita Karaj

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OUR STORYEvolving to Agile

March 2012 March 2013 October 2014


THE ORGANIZATION

Born in 19144,300 people organization wide280 in IT12 Change Agents(6 internal, 6 consultants)


THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN

Legislated by governmentFunded by insurance premiumsUnion and non-union employees


BUSINESS DESIRE“To be the best public sector organization in Canada”


IT CAPABILITY


NEW CIO100 person layoff, outsource of IT operations, massive

modernization program started, end of organizational life


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CIO

QMO

Planning & Architecture

EA

CM

PP

Application Development

Dev QA

Business and PM Stuff

PM/BA

Business

PMO

we worked here


THE PLAN

Training

Evolve Process

Embedded Coaches

Tools/BDD

Q1 2012 Q4 2012

yay! we’re agile!


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THE KANBAN PROCESSEnterprise stand-ups, 3 times per week, bi-weekly

“transformation meeting”


1 Enterprise Kanban

20+ Team/Dept Kanbans

Risks, Issues, Blockers


KANBAN SAFARI


TEAM + IMPROVEMENT BOARDSmoving to pull-based coaching


CROSS-FUNCTIONAL TEAMS


3 PROJECTS, 3 APPROACHES

pfff Agile? Leave me alone!

we’ll try THAT, but not THAT!

Gimme all the things!


Accepted coaching support

First co-located team

Dedicated team

Involved client

Visualized work, did stand-ups

Accepted all training (Behaviour Driven Development, Agile delivery etc)



AINO - AGILE IN NAME ONLYBPUF, no improvements, PM ran the show



DAY LATE AND A DOLLAR SHORT?6 months late, littered with bugs




Co-located team

Dedicated team

Involved client




Project: high profile, history of late delivery with little warning, frequently needed more budget, many “fun” meetings!


HR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR:“Helped me understand how much work needed to get done....provided a mechanism to find out problems earlier”



THE IRON WHAT?whoopsie.

Cost

Scope Time




Co-located team

Dedicated team

Involved client





58 FEATURES IN 8 MONTHS, 8 ESCAPED DEFECTS ON THEIR FIRST RELEASE



Their Business client:

From: “I don’t want to see you until you are done with my requirements”

to “I understand what you are doing and I trust you”.



VISIBILITY 2.0…


INTAKE PROCESS, LINES OF BUSINESS


RISKS, RELEASE WALL, CHANGE WORK


DEPENDANCIES, ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE


CREEPING INTO THE ORGANIZATION


BRANCHING OUT


Stuff we did

gamification

Lean Coffee Executive Lean Coffee

Study Groups

Communities of Practice

Geek Talk

Quality CoP

Evening Meet-ups

External training

ConferencesYammer

Quarterly Budgeting

Management 3.0

Innovation GamesGet Kanban

Re-Designed WorkspacesHack the Culture!

Kanbanized HR Lego TDD


Stuff we’ll talk about next

gamification

Lean Coffee Executive Lean Coffee

Study Groups

Communities of Practice

Geek Talk

Quality CoP

Evening Meet-ups

External training

ConferencesYammer

Quarterly Budgeting

Management 3.0

Innovation GamesGet Kanban

Re-Designed WorkspacesHack the Culture!

Kanbanized HR Lego TDD


LEAN COFFEETo support the transformation


LEAN COFFEE LEAD TO…

connection to the PMO

BA CoP

Geek Talk

“mandated CoP” oops.

Exec Lean Coffee

L&P

M30

Lean Coffee

PMO Study group

Quarterly budgeting


CULTURE HACKINGexposing dysfunctions


NON-SOFTWARE TEAMSBig Visible Gantt Chart FTW!


KANBANIZED HRmoved away from big annual plans


INNOVATION GAMESProduct box game for CoP’s


EXECS CHEATING AT PLAYING GET KANBANno really, they tried to cheat


MANAGEMENT 3.0official management curriculum


TDD LEGO


Study groups and training from some awesome people!


WHAT DID WE LEARN?

Transformational Change cannot be scheduled and budgeted for

Coaching stance is importantToo many simultaneous big changes is bad

Sometimes HR can’t fix people problemsKanban isn’t necessarily less disruptive

Agile thinking must come with technical capability


WHAT HAPPENED?

Q2 to Q3 2013Half the QMO team moved on QMO was moved into the PMO

New QMO ManagerOptimus Prime (The CIO) left

Q3 to Q4 2013Outsourced companies took over the modernization

program“Kanban” was kicked to the curb to a large degree

~1 year delay on modernization milestonesSevere integration problems

Plan for more outsourcing caused damage with employees


WHAT HAPPENED?

The Last 3 Months• New CIO (3rd one)• Supportive of Lean/Kanban approach• Many pockets of ‘Kanban’ re-appearing• Moving back to ‘Service Line’ and value stream approach• Building PO mentality with closer connections to

customers• Additional outsourcing was stopped by new CIO, trust

building again…slowly• BA CoP died off :-(• Kudo cards are back!


From the People!

“It feels like we are getting back to where we were before, and everyone is excited about that. Outsourcing is off the table

and we are working on getting our people ready to take on the support of the new system. They are happy and slowly

starting to trust again.”

“Things that stuck: Kanban when we remember”

“Things that suck: This is MY transformation (<consulting firm> leads, we follow, take minutes, book rooms)”

“Kanban boards continue to be used across the organization, Retrospectives are taking place, mostly on IT projects though”


CHANGE IS COMPLEX EH?


LESS PLANNING, MORE EXPERIMENTS

Bob

Jane

Biff


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